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"In the course of your employment as a Biomedical Scientist by Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust you:

1) On 29 October 2008 and 31 October 2008, you made racist remarks about an absent colleague in the presence of other work colleagues with words to the effect of,

“I have an idea of what XX could do as her other job - a suicide bomber“

2) The matters set out in paragraph 1 constitutes misconduct,

3) By reason of that misconduct, your fitness to practise is impaired"

How come this single incident has taken such a long time to be dealth with by the HPC?

Is a certain department trying to get rid of a staff member by any chance?

 

It would yet again appear that the NHS is devoid of appropriate HR professionals. This is clearly an abuse of of the regulatory system.

The Trust concerned should be dealing with this under its dignity at work policy and not referring it to the HPC.

The HPC should be determining fitness to practise not dealing with HR matters that any good employer can deal with.
Given the fact there appears to be no written evidence to back this alleged incident with then it would be unlikely to be sucessful at FTP hearing. Furthermore given that the this alleged incident is unlikely to result in a dismissal under the trusts own policies and procedures , it would suggest that an FTP would not take any action against the registrant.

The above musings are drawn from the limited information available and the HPC may well be privy to more detailed information. However there appears to be a conerning trend of employers subsituting good HR practice with automatic HPC referral, which does little to protect the public, assist registrants , add dignity to the NHS reputation, and more conerninly is sidtraxting the HPC from dealing with genuine cases of deficient practise.

The new Secretary of State should as a matter of urgency set up a Royal Commission to review the work of ALL health regulatory bodies within the UK, as none of them appear to fit for purpose as currently constructed or under the current framework of operating. Given that they are all operating under secondary legislation and change to the structure and procedures would take little parliamentary time as an order in council would be required. After all this was supposed to the the main benefit of using this legistaive method to created the HPC in the first place, as most people will recall the old CPSM for what ever its faults was created under primary legislation and rejected frivous complaints.

It is also about time that registrant subject to malicious referral / complaint have the right of legal redress against the individual or organisation making the complaint.